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    Webroot Anti-spyware... worth it.

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Nocturnal310, Jan 24, 2008.

  1. Nocturnal310

    Nocturnal310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Since this is 'Security' section we often ignore dedicated anti-spyware SW's as most AV's come with integrated built-in Anti-spyware Software (AS-SW in short) these days..

    Although AVG, Avast other free AV's do not have AS-SW built-in & hence many of us prefer Dedicated anti-spyware (Gosh! .. Dedicated is always better than integrated eg: GPu's)

    About an year ago my laptop was under attack... Multi-trojans, Data stealers, Spy Keystroke loggers...
    & a Alpha Cleaner... the Biggest most elaborative Trojan Downloader..

    I tried everything the Spywares wont go.. i used all Free Anti-spywares.. available at that time.

    With a quick research i purchased Webroot.. It cleared all the mess accumulated over a month in less than 20 mins..
    Other Features that made me stick to it next year also was Its Moderate resource usage, Good technical support on the website & Not to mention its great GUI & Tonnes of shields...
    Ad blockers, IE Hijack shields, Realtime shields etc etc

    Since then i ve been using it..


    Any Other Webroot users here? How do u think it compares to Spybot Search n Destroy?
     
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    dmorris68 Notebook Consultant

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    SpySweeper has long been considered one of the best commercial anti-spyware tools, so I think you'll be happy with it. IMO it has been surpassed by a-squared, though. I used to run 2-3 anti-spyware apps because none could find everything, but a-squared is about as close as you can get to a single-shot solution. And like AVG, they have a free personal version (same engine as commercial, just less extra features and requires manual updates).
     
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